A Haunted House and Other Short Stories [antikvár]

FOREWORD by leonard woolf Monday or Ttiesday, the only book of short stories by-Virginia Woolf which appeared in her lifetime, was published 23 years ago, in 1921. All through her life, Virginia Woolf used at intervals to write short stories. It was her custom, whenever an idea for one occurred to her, to sketch it out in a very rough form and then to put it away in a drawer. Later, if an editor asked her for a short story, and she felt in the mood to write one (which was not frequent), she would take a sketch out of her drawer and rewrite it, sometimes a great many times. Or if she felt, as she often | did, while writing a novel that she required to rest her mind | by working at something else for a time, she would either \ write a critical essay or work upon one of her sketches for | short stories. [ For some time before her death we had often discussed f the possibility of publishing a new collected edition of short stories. Finally, in 1940, she decided that she would get together a new volume of such stories and include in it most of the stories which had appeared originally in Monday or Tuesday, as well as some published subsequently in magazines and some unpublished. Our idea was that she should produce a volume of critical essays in 1941 and the volume of stories in 1942. In the present volume I have tried to carry out her intention. I have included in it six out of the eight stories or